7.8 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Syria and Turkey and SAMS Responds
For Immediate Release February 6, 2023 The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is on the ground in Syria responding to...
For Immediate Release February 6, 2023 The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is on the ground in Syria responding to...
January 9, 2023 Washington, D.C.- SAMS welcomes the decision taken by the UN Security Council today to reauthorize UNSC 2642,...
On Friday, December 9th, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2664, implementing a safeguard for humanitarian relief across all UN...
December 5, Kyiv, Ukraine – SAMS and partners held a two-day training course in Kyiv last week to prepare 50 medical...
2021 was another challenging year for medical personnel in Syria and around the world. In Syria, we faced ongoing attacks...
International organizations have regularly condemned warring parties for carrying out indiscriminate warfare in Syria, including by using allegedly indiscriminate weapons....
Washington, D.C., September 30th, 2022 – On September 19th, health authorities confirmed the first cholera case in northwest (NW) Syria...
The Turkish version of our Report: A Heavy Price to Pay: Attacks on Healthcare Systems in Syria 2015-2021.
Dear Residency Applicants, On behalf of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), we would like to announce that we are accepting applicants for SAMS scholarship program for this year. SAMS scholarship program offers monetary loans to selected applicants in order to assist them in taking care of their financial needs. Awardees are expected to...
The law of armed conflict, or international humanitarian law (“IHL”), has long protected medical personnel and facilities.2 The first article of the 1864 Geneva Convention protected the neutrality of ambulances and hospitals.3 The 1907 Hague Convention directs that “in sieges and bombardments all necessary steps must be taken to spare,...
July 12, 2022 Washington, D.C.- Today, the UN Security Council voted to reauthorize the Syria cross-border aid mechanism to northwest Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border-crossing for six months. While we welcome this re-authorization, the current arrangement of renegotiating vital aid every six months represents an impossible situation for aid...
Since the start of the conflict in Syria, the world has witnessed the distressing reality of how perpetrators of violence have systematically targeted healthcare systems in Syria, now well-documented and substantial reality of the conflict. Alongside immediate destruction that this causes on people and health care systems, this also means...